Just text.
What is this device?
Claymore, hopefully deactivated. Explodes in the direction indicated.
It’s not deactivated. Because it’s not even the right shape to be a real claymore.
Looks like a 3D print project.
Party popper
Command-detonated directional anti-personnel mine “M18 Claymore”.
It can also be used as a booby-trap, but that is prohibited by the Ottowa Treaty.
I find it funny the name of that treaty given the whole “Geneva checklist” running joke with Canada (and Poland).
Except today someone would call the cops, they’d show up in riot gear, shoot your dog, and the HOA would sue you for causing emotional harm.
Yep. :)
First I just wanna say, I appreciate the joke.
I can’t speak for other countries but, in numerous states in the US, it is illegal to “incite fear” of bodily harm, even as a joke or prank. One common example is brake-checking other vehicles on the road. Another example could be placing “caution minefield” signs on your lawn to deter pet owners allowing their animals to poop on your lawn, etc.
How does that sqaure her circled with open carry ?
If you are doing something with a gun that incites fear, then yes, the cops can and will come talk to you. And depending on what you were doing, they can charge you with a crime. There’s a very vague law about “brandishing” a firearm in most states that they can use to charge people who are being assholes.
Most of the time you see an open carry, which is far less common than concealed carry (for obvious reasons), nobody even pays it any attention because it’s somebody who needs the attention to feel masculine.
What does “square her circled” mean?
To “square a circle” is to try to make to concepts that are mutually contradictory match up.
Eg - why is it okay to have open carry (which often does come across as a threat) versus fake minefields.
Open carry is something the slavering idiots here love, and as a queer person that used to travel to a bunch of rural areas - it’s pretty terrifying.
I want to start off this diatribe with saying I am very much anti open carry in any situation where you’re around strangers!
But as you’re a queer person, depending on whether or not you’re very obvious, you may want to look into some firearm training classes at the very least if you’re not comfortable keeping one around. I’m not sure how this project 2025 shit is going to end, but I’m having some strange de ja vu, like I’ve seen this movie before.
But I went from one dumbass very populated red State to a rural one. And the idiots I see open carrying are the least threatening people I’ve ever seen! Like I’m talking either elderly cowboy types or fucking obvious weebs. I come from a background of violence(not my family though thank God) and can see right through them. They probably wouldn’t even pull it out if they were behind an armed robber in the act. I know this is a tall order considering your background, but I’m begging you to not be afraid of those idiots. You are giving them way more energy than they deserve.
Also thank you very much for explaining that and helping alleviate my ignorance.
I mean, you could just disconnect the doorbell instead and tell your friends to call you of they come to visit.
step 1: don’t live in an HOA. step 2: reinforce your doors and windows to prevent the feds from entering. step 3: prepare for the seige.
Idk about everywhere else, but where I live in the US, even pretending to have a bomb strapped to your house would be a felony.
Even funnier if it makes a crazy loud « BANG » when attempting to ring it…
Place a trigger operated flash strobe light behind the glass next to the bell. Now when the bell is pressed, there’s a loud “BANG!” and a blinding flash of light
Add a water balloon that drops from above and lands on the person at the same time
Make it so the front of the explosive pops forward, like on a piston. Their eyes will be focused on it when they press the button, having it jump towards them will be extra effective.
Pops up a Looney Tunes style flag reading Boom!
I recently found out that lawyers in the UK are called solicitors. They solicit for business every day. They regularly solicit in court.
Is that text an instruction, or a description?
Like is that on the back, telling me to point the front towards the enemy?
Or is this informative, telling me that this IS the front, and that it should be pointed at the enemy instead of me?I’d assume they’d put text they want the user to read on the side that should be facing the user, but I get the feeling that that’s not what they did.
It is informative. It is telling you, “This side is the FRONT, and should be facing TOWARD the ENEMY, not you, you fucking crayon munching lunatic!”
I thought as much just from playing videogames and knowing how a claymore is supposed to work in the general sense.
But I would argue that this is poor and ambiguous labeling, but I guess it’s simple enough of a device that it becomes clear anyways. Presumably with opposite labels on the opposite side.
[This is the] front
[Point it] towards the enemyVs
[The] front
[Should be pointed] towards the enemyI imagine someone panicking, not thinking clearly, thinking that an instructional label is on the side they should be looking at, and therefore putting it the wrong way around. Like if there was a sticker on a rifle that said “front towards enemy” you wouldn’t hold the rifle such that the sticker was facing the enemy.
It takes so little effort to fix ambiguous labeling, it makes me annoyed when it’s not fixed, especially in safety critical situations.
